THE SPACE BETWEEN is an artist film exhibition programme curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council and LUX, which explores memory, archives, representation/abstraction, time and movement.

THE SPACE BETWEEN programme contains a curated compilation of four works, alongside associated installations. The flexible nature of the programme means that collaborating curators choose some or all of the works for their exhibition and can introduce other artworks as they wish.

'The work in THE SPACE BETWEEN approaches its medium in variously exploratory ways. These films and videos embody contemporary art’s ability to convey a range of artistic views – through the mediation of still photography, archival material, sound and the manipulation of our embodied experiences of time and movement.' - Tendai John Mutambu, curator

Collaborating partners and venues

 

Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand (14 November 2020 – 28 November 2020) 

Exhibition Title: THE SPACE BETWEEN

Artworks exhibited:

  • Ursula Mayer, The Crystal Gaze, 2007, 8 minutes (LUX)
  • Noor Afshan Mirza (fka Karen Mirza) & Brad Butler, The Space Between, 2005, 12 minutes (LUX)
  • The Otolith Group, People to be Resembling, 2012, 21 minutes, 42 seconds (LUX)
  • Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, 7 minutes, 40 seconds (LUX)

No public programme due to Covid-19.

 

Indonesian Contemporary Art & Design Festival (ICAD), Jakarta, Indonesia (16 October 2019 – 16 November 2019)

Exhibition Title: THE SPACE BETWEEN

Artworks exhibited:

  • Ursula Mayer, The Crystal Gaze, 2007, 8 minutes (LUX)
  • Noor Afshan Mirza (fka Karen Mirza) & Brad Butler, The Space Between, 2005, 12 minutes (LUX)
  • The Otolith Group, People to be Resembling, 2012, 21 minutes, 42 seconds (LUX)
  • Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, 7 minutes, 40 seconds (LUX)

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THE SPACE BETWEEN is part of WE ARE HERE: Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX – a series of five artists’ film programmes curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices.

Each programme is curated around a theme: national identity, marginality, intimacy, the future and the archive.

WE ARE HERE interrogates how outstanding emerging and established British or UK-based contemporary artists are influenced by these themes and how they explore them through biography, documentary, poetry and fiction.

Installation Images

  • Noor Afshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Space Between, 2005.
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